langs: 8 апреля [ru] / april 8 [en] / 8. april [de] / 8 avril [fr] / 8 aprile [it] / 8 de abril [es]

days: april 5 / april 6 / april 7 / april 8 / april 9 / april 10 / april 11

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Tank / Tank

#1 Boxer (armoured fighting vehicle)

The Boxer is a multirole armoured fighting vehicle designed by an international consortium to accomplish a number of operations through the use of installable mission modules. The governments participating in the Boxer programme have changed as the programme has developed. The Boxer vehicle is produ

• ... will create a new German Army Boxer variant termed the Joint Fire Support Team schwer (JFSTsw). On 8 april 2022 it was disclosed that British Army would receive an additional 100 Boxer, bringing the order t ...

#2 Char B1

The Char B1 was a French heavy tank manufactured before World War II . This article includes a list of general references , but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations . ( April 2012 ) Break-through tank, Heavy tank Char B1 The Char B1 bis Rhône at the Musée des Blindés at Saumur Type Bre

• ... 47 mm SA 35 gun, to give the tank a real anti-tank capacity. It was the main production type: from 8 april 1937 until June 1940, 369 units were delivered out of a total order for 1144, with series numbers 2 ...

#3 Non-U.S. operators of the M60 Patton

M60 tank non US-operators are the non U.S. nations that operate or used the M60 Main Battle Tank. The M60 tank entered service with the U.S. military in 1960 and served until 1991 and as a training aid until 2005. During this time it was the primary tank of the U.S.Army and U.S. Marine Corps . This

• ... 20 M1A2 Abrams and at least 22 M60A3s. Many of these were destroyed by Iranian and Soviet ATGMs. On april 8, 2018, a Saudi M60A3 tank was lost and seven soldiers killed during a skirmish in the Najran provinc ...

#4 Tanks of the United States

The United States has produced tanks since their inception in World War I , up until the present day. While there were several American experiments in tank design, the first American tanks to see service were copies of French light tanks and a joint heavy tank design with the United Kingdom. Tanks u

• ... k Battalions tried to defend the beaches, the airfield, and provide support for the infantry, until 8 april 1942, when the 192nd and 194th received orders to prepare to destroy their M3s. They were not entir ...

#5 DD tank

DD or Duplex Drive tanks , nicknamed " Donald Duck tanks", [1] were a type of amphibious swimming tank developed by the British during the Second World War . The phrase is mostly used for the Duplex Drive variant of the M4 Sherman medium tank , that was used by the Western Allies during and after th

• ... n Small. It is now on display in the village of Torcross as part of a memorial to those who died on 8 april 1944 when an invasion rehearsal, Exercise Tiger , was attacked by E-boats . This Sherman is an M4A1 ...

#6 AMR 35

The Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance Renault Modèle 35 Type ZT ( AMR 35 or Renault ZT ) was a French light tank developed during the Interbellum and used in the Second World War. It was not intended to reconnoitre and report as its name suggests but was a light armoured combat vehicle, mostly with

• ... factory capacity in 1937 was used to rebuild and modify the entire first production batch of 92. On 8 april 1937 Renault was forced to submit two modified vehicles — one of each of the two main versions — fo ...

#7 Leopard 2

The Leopard 2 is a 3rd generation main battle tank originally developed by Krauss-Maffei in the 1970s for the West German army . The tank first entered service in 1979 and succeeded the earlier Leopard 1 as the main battle tank of the German Army . It is armed with a 120   mm smoothbore cannon, and

• ... of these were converted to 2A6 standard. Many Leopard 2s were sold after the end of the Cold War. On 8 april l 2011, the Dutch Ministry of Defence announced that the last remaining tank division would be disba ...

#8 Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle

The Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle or Infantry Mobility Vehicle is an Australian -built four-wheel drive armoured vehicle. The Bushmaster was primarily designed by the then government-owned Australian Defence Industries (ADI), and is currently produced by Thales Australia following their acqu

• ... request for Bushmasters, Prime Minister Scott Morrison agreed to gift 20 Bushmasters to Ukraine on 8 april 2022. They were to be flown to Europe on RAAF C-17 transports, which can carry 4 vehicles at a time ...

#9 Saint-Chamond (tank)

The Saint-Chamond was the second French tank to enter service during the First World War , with 400 manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918. Although not a tank by a strict definition of a heavily armoured turreted vehicle, it is generally accepted and described as such in accounts of early tank d

• ... ve to create the French tank arm, learned that an order for 400 additional tanks had been passed on april 8, 1916, he was at first quite elated. When it later became apparent that they would be of a different ...